Caught in His Gilded World by Lucy Ellis

Author:Lucy Ellis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-11-02T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

SHE LOOKED LIKE an angel. Her long, coppery red hair was snaking across the black leather of the seat, golden lashes lay recumbent on her high pointed cheekbones. Every last cinnamon-brown freckle stood out against the pallor of her scrubbed clean face. She had one slender hand cradling her cheek as she slept.

Against his better judgement Khaled reached across with one hand and lifted the blanket that had dropped from her shoulders to hang over her knees, and was now threatening to slide off completely. He draped it over her and returned to navigating the long stretch of highway taking them from the airport into central Moscow.

What the hell was he doing?

He’d been asking himself that question for the last three hours. The obvious answer was between his legs. The less obvious conclusion he’d come to was that he genuinely liked her. She might be a con artist and a stripper, but she had a way about her that had caught him unawares. And he could say this for her: he damn well wasn’t bored.

Only now, when he looked at her sleeping, his suspicions seemed laboured and frankly untrue.

It was difficult to match up the wet, naked fantasy who had lied to him, furiously kicking her legs as he’d carried her offstage, with the soft-featured sleeping girl beside him, her face a study of the angelic, her impossibly long limbs curled up under her, her hair a swathe of burnished colour across the blue of the blanket.

A shower and a change of clothes had taken care of the gold-painted mess and the Gigi he’d spent the day with had been once more beside him. Khaled had been surprised by the level of his own satisfaction on that score.

He knew when she opened her eyes. He could feel them on him.

He glanced her way.

She blinked. Those eyes stayed on him. Very blue. She licked her lips. It should have been sexual. Instead what he felt was a warmth spreading through his chest.

She was safe. She was awake. He had no intention of letting her out of his sight.

It felt good.

She sat up, pushing back her fringe.

‘Where are we?’

‘Quarter of an hour outside Moscow.’

‘What time is it?’

‘Midnight. You lost three hours.’

‘Where did I lose them?’

He tried not to smile. ‘Back in Paris.’

‘Along with my shoes,’ she said. Then furrowed her brow at him. ‘Why didn’t you wake me up?’

‘You were sound asleep—it was easier to carry you to the car.’

‘You carried me?’

‘It seemed the thing to do.’

She pulled on her sleeves, gave him an awkward sideward look. ‘You’ve turned me into one of those showgirls who goes away with a wealthy man for the weekend.’

‘Is that so?’

‘I’m trying to work out how I feel about that.’

‘Fill me in when you’ve decided.’

Gigi cast him another look. ‘I guess I’m not here to sleep with you, so the nuts and bolts of that kind of thing don’t apply, but nobody else knows that. It looks bad.’

It wasn’t her imagination. He’d definitely tensed.

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